Long life at the lanes

I had the opportunity to spend a few hours with Helen Borosh, a San Antonio woman who was celebrating her 98th birthday.

Borosh is deep into her golden years, but she’s more active than many people my age (which is less than a third of her age).

She belongs to a quilting club. She sews for Threads of Love, an organization that provides clothing and blankets to premature babies. She helps out around her daughter and son-in-law’s home. And every Thursday, she gets together with her friends to go bowling.

She took up the hobby 24 years ago and used to bowl with her husband. It’s a good form of exercise, she says, and she’s made a lot of great friends.

Borosh is there for the fun and for the companionship, she told me, but make no mistake. This woman takes the game seriously.

She was disappointed that her first two games of the day were way below her average of 107. She was distracted by the reporter (me) asking her questions, by an Express-News photographer snapping her photo every time she went up to the lane to bowl, and by the little birthday party, complete with cake, that the Golden 55 senior bowling league and the AMF Country Lanes alley threw for her.

After I left, she told me today, she bowled a strike.

If you missed the story in today’s Metro section, you can read it here, but I recommend picking up a copy of the paper because the photos are priceless.